Bio
Karim Creary is an associate in the Dispute Resolution team of Appleby’s Bermuda office.
Karim joined Appleby in 2017 as an intern in the Corporate department. He later joined as a trainee where he gained experience in the Technology and Innovation team working on a range of matters including but not limited to: assisting with successful Digital Asset Business Act license applications, drafting statutory declarations of merger for merging entities, assisting with the Intellectual property practice (new trade mark applications, trade mark renewal applications, registration of approved marks), reviewing Anti Money-Laundering Policies to ensure adherence to statutory regulation, preparing checklists outlining disclosure requirements under Digital Asset Code of Practice 2019, drafting board and shareholder resolutions, reviewing and amending company bye-laws, drafting letters of resignation for directors, and liaising with the Bermuda Regulatory Authority for discussions on regulated client activity.
Karim earned a Graduate Diploma of Law in 2020 and most recently earned his Legal Practice Certificate as well as his MSc in Law, Business and Management specialising in the effect of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations’ effects on corporate governance from the University of Law, Bristol in 2021.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Bermuda: set to be a digital ‘Fort Knox’ – The Royal Gazette, Legally Speaking – March 2022
DEALS:
- COINZOOM, INC., Advised CoinZoom, Inc. on its application for a Class M Digital Asset Business licence pursuant to the Digital Asset Business Act 2018;
